Category: Supply Chain

Ten health systems have posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:

A domestic medical gown manufacturing plant funded by 34 health systems will start production in early spring. 

Officials in Chicago and Philadelphia are warning residents to be aware of fake COVID-19 tests and testing sites given the scarcity of supplies during the recent surge of cases. 

Rapid COVID-19 tests at Indiana state and local health department testing sites will only be available to individuals aged 18 and younger and symptomatic individuals aged 50 and older, according to new guidelines issued by the Department of Health Jan. 4.

Following the end of a three-month agreement with the federal government to sell at-home COVID-19 tests at a lower price, Walmart and Kroger have raised the prices of Abbott Laboratories’ BinaxNow testing kits, NBC News reported Jan. 4. 

Columbia, S.C.-based Rhino Medical Supply is now selling at-home COVID-19 tests to the public as cases surge in the state, Fox affiliate WACH reported Jan. 4.

Chicago-based medical technology company Hillrom is being sued by Linet, a global supplier of hospital beds, for allegedly using “anti-competitive” practices to slow the supplier’s growth in the U.S., the Chicago Tribune reported Dec. 29. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging the federal government to allow states to buy monoclonal antibody treatments amid the latest COVID-19 surge, The Hill reported Jan. 3. 

The Tennessee Department of Health has received a limited supply of the Merck and Pfizer oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19.